Board Of Directors

Vittaldas Leeladhar

Independent Non-Executive Director, Tata Cleantech Capital Limited

Mr. Leeladhar has a long experience in the banking industry, having served as the Executive Director of the Bank of Maharashtra, Chairman and Managing Director of Vijaya Bank. He also served as the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

Vittaldas Leeladhar

Independent Non-Executive Director, Tata Cleantech Capital Limited

Mr. Leeladhar has a long experience in the banking industry, having served as the Executive Director of the Bank of Maharashtra, Chairman and Managing Director of Vijaya Bank and Chairman and Managing Director of Union Bank of India. He also served as the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India for over four years.

Mr. Leeladhar is an expert on banking and finance-related issues. He was also a member of the Securities & Exchange Board of India for about three years. His expertise is in the area of banking and finance.

Rajiv Sabharwal

Non-Executive Director, Tata Cleantech Capital Limited

Rajiv, a B. Tech from IIT Delhi and PGDM from IIM Lucknow, has over 26 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry. Rajiv is currently the Managing Director & CEO of Tata Capital Limited. He is also the Chairman of Tata Capital Financial Services Limited, Tata Capital Housing Finance Limited and Tata Securities Limited and is also on the Board of Tata Cleantech Capital Limited, Tata Capital Pte Ltd. and Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited.

Rajiv Sabharwal

Non-Executive Director, Tata Cleantech Capital Limited

Rajiv, a B. Tech from IIT Delhi and PGDM from IIM Lucknow, has over 26 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry. Rajiv is currently the Managing Director & CEO of Tata Capital Limited. He is also the Chairman of Tata Capital Financial Services Limited, Tata Capital Housing Finance Limited and Tata Securities Limited and is also on the Board of Tata Cleantech Capital Limited, Tata Capital Pte Ltd. and Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited.

He has served as an Executive Director on the Board of ICICI Bank where he was responsible for several businesses including retail banking, business banking, rural banking, financial inclusion, technology and digital banking. He has also served as the Chairman of ICICI Home Finance Company Limited and was on the Board of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited. He was also on the Investment Advisory Committee (Real Estate) of ICICI Prudential AMC.

Rajiv has been widely acknowledged and credited for his contribution to the growth of the Retail Banking and Real Estate & Housing Finance market in India.

He also has experience in both Venture Capital and Growth Capital investing, through stints at both Sequoia Capital and True North. He has also been on the Board of a number of early stage and growing companies in the Financial services space.

He has also served on a number of RBI and IBA committees.

Rajiv has also had successful stints with the Godrej Group, SRF Finance, GE Capital and Times Bank.

Pradeep C. Bandivadekar

Non-Executive Director, Tata Cleantech Capital Limited

Mr. Bandivadekar is the Chief Risk Officer at Tata Capital. Prior to this role, he was responsible for the setting up of the Commercial Finance and the Infrastructure lending businesses, directing them to meet their financial, operational and revenue goals.

Pradeep C. Bandivadekar

Non-Executive Director, Tata Cleantech Capital Limited

Mr. Bandivadekar is the Chief Risk Officer at Tata Capital. Prior to this role, he was responsible for the setting up of the Commercial Finance and the Infrastructure lending businesses, directing them to meet their financial, operational and revenue goals. He was responsible for the overall business, growth plans and implementation, resources, processes, controls, strategy building, compliances and driving best practices and cost-efficient end-to-end solutions.

Pradeep joined the Tata Group in 2000 as the Treasurer for Tata Motors Limited and was focused on resource management, currency management and asset management. Five years later, he was made the CEO, Tata Motor Finance and was responsible for all management and operations of Tata Motors Finance (CV, PC and CEQ business).

He started his career in 1983 as a Senior Development Officer at Sicom Limited. Soon after, he had a 13 year long association with Siemens where he took up many responsibilities, chiefly Head- Strategic planning and Chief Manager-Corporate Treasury. During this tenor he handled all growth plans, new projects and collaborations for Siemens Limited.

He is an Electrical Engineer and MBA from Mumbai University. Over the years, he has also completed executive education and training workshops such as Strategic Planning MDI at Switzerland, Value through Financial Management at Wharton School of Business Management and Tata Group Strategic Management Workshop, TMTC. He has conducted several training programmes and participated in training seminars at ICAI, Euromoney, etc.

Padmini Khare Kaicker

Independent Director, Tata Cleantech Capital Limited

Ms. Padmini, is Managing Partner of B.K. Khare & Co. Chartered Accountants, having over 20 years experience in auditing large Indian organizations and multinational companies operating in India across a cross section of industries including oil & gas, Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, automotives, information technology, and capital goods.

Padmini Khare Kaicker

Independent Director, Tata Cleantech Capital Limited

Ms. Padmini, is Managing Partner of B.K. Khare & Co. Chartered Accountants, having over 20 years experience in auditing large Indian organizations and multinational companies operating in India across a cross section of industries including oil & gas, Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, automotives, information technology, and capital goods.

Ms. Padmini is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) as also a Certified Public Accountant (USA). She also served on several Committees of the ICAI and has been on the Boards of Indus Ind Bank Ltd and Gabriel India Ltd. Ms. Padmini joined B.K Khare & Co. in the year 1990 and has held a number of key client facing and management roles. Under her leadership the firm has grown to be a full service firm and strengthened its pre-eminent position.

In addition to growing the firms practice, she has been responsible for building the consulting and corporate finance verticals as also firms foray into financial sector. Ms. Padmini has been extensively involved in Financial Services clients such as banks, NBFCs and insurance companies.

Manish Chourasia

Managing Director - Tata Cleantech Capital Limited

Manish has over 20 year experience in origination, credit risk assessment and syndication in Asia-Pacific Region. As part of the above mentioned functional categories, he has handled various products covering project finance, mezzanine finance, acquisition finance, credit derivatives etc.

Manish Chourasia

Managing Director - Tata Cleantech Capital Limited

Manish has over 20 year experience in origination, credit risk assessment and syndication in Asia-Pacific Region. As part of the above mentioned functional categories, he has handled various products covering project finance, mezzanine finance, acquisition finance, credit derivatives etc.

Prior to joining TCCL, Manish lead the initiative of launching first Infrastructure Debt Fund (IDF) in India, from April 2013 to June 2015, as Chief Executive Officer of IL&FS Infra Asset Management Ltd., a JV company between IL&FS and LIC. IL&FS IDF is the first IDF in India with AUM of USD 230 million and the market leader in the industry, playing a pioneering role in the development of the IDF sector.

From October 2004 to June 2010, Manish was Alternate Chief Executive & Head - Wholesale Banking of ICICI Bank, Hong Kong Branch and was responsible for building the corporate banking business of the Bank in North Asia (comprising Hong Kong, China, Korea and Japan). He developed the corporate banking business of the branch from scratch and the branch had asset base of over USD 2.0 billion when he was transferred to India by ICICI Bank.

After returning to India in July 2010, he took responsibility as Team Leader in Project Finance Group handling portfolio comprising companies in manufacturing and mining sectors. As part of this assignment, he was responsible for appraisal, structuring and underwriting project loans in above mentioned sectors. Apart from above, he was also member of the Committee of Executives of ICICI Bank, which had sanctioning power for credit facilities given to corporate clients.

In October 2012, Manish was conferred CFA designation by CFA Institute, USA and has since then been active volunteer of the institute. Currently he is member of Education Advisory Committee of the CFA Institute. He is mechanical engineer from IIT Roorkee and MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.